WOMEN’S BODIES: URINARY PROBLEMS

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Urinary problems often cause ill health among women. The anatomy of our lower urinary and genital systems, some consequences of pregnancy and childbirth and a shortage of oestrogen after the menopause make us more vulnerable than men to certain problems. The most common are cystitis, kidney infections and incontinence.

Here are some of the most common symptoms of urinary disorders.

Frequency

This means that you feel the need to empty your bladder more often than is usual for you, or more than about six times during the day. Of course you’ll have extra urine to pass if you drink a large volume of fluid in a short time, especially if the drinks contain caffeine or alcohol (both increase urine production).

Urgency This means that when you get the urge to pass urine, it strikes suddenly with little or no warning, and it really is overwhelmingly urgent.

Dysuria This is pain or difficulty when passing urine.

Nocturia This is having to empty your bladder more than once during the night.

Urinary incontinence This scribes the involuntary escape of urine from the bladder. Incontinence can range from loss of one or two drops when уou cough or sneeze through a slight dribble before you reach the toilet to total loss control.

Other urinary symptoms include pain above the pubic bone, pain in the loins (small of the back), burning of the skin of
the genitals on passing urine and blood-stained, cloudy or strong-smelling urine.

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